We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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